Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries. He also pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.

From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series, presented on American commercial television stations. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations.

In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, he surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957.

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Films Featuring Jacques-Yves Cousteau

World Without Sun

19646.6

Voyage to the Edge of the World

19767.1

Calypso's Search for the Britannic

1977

Cries from the Deep

198110.0

Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants

200910.0

30 Years of National Geographic Specials

19958.0

Riders of the Wind

1986

The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

1966

The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1

The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1

19797.0

The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice

19747.0

The Cousteau Collection N°9-2 | Morse's Smile

19736.0

The Cousteau Collection N°7-2 | The Night of the Squid

19695.5

The Cousteau Collection N°12-1 | The Dragons of the Galapagos

19715.5

The Cousteau Collection N°8-2 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 2)

19785.5

The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin

19746.0

The Cousteau Collection N°7-1 | Octopus, Little Octopus

19725.0

The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1)

19785.5

The Cousteau Collection N°11-2 | Ultimatum Under the Sea

19785.5

The Cousteau Collection N°11-1 | Scandal in Valdez

19905.8

The Cousteau Collection N°2-1 | The Song of the Dolphins

19726.2

The Cousteau Collection N°6-1 | Hippo, Hippo

19735.5

The Cousteau Collection N°3-1 | Desert Whales

19695.8

The Cousteau Collection N°15-1 | The Lagoon of Lost Ships

19705.5

The Cousteau Collection N°16-1 | Strait Islands: The Waters of Discord

19875.5

The Cousteau Collection N°17-2 | Amazon: The Enchanted River

19835.0

The Cousteau Collection N°17-1 | Amazon: In the Land of a Thousand Rivers

19835.0

The Cousteau Collection N°18-1 | Fleeing Shadows: Indians of the Amazon

19836.5

The Cousteau Collection N°14-1 | Australia: The People of Water and Fire

19916.0

The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1)

19858.0

The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle

19845.5

The Cousteau Collection N°20-1 | Alcyone: Daughter of the Wind

19856.0

The Cousteau Collection N°31-1 | The Fate of Sea Otters

19715.5

The Cousteau Collection N°23-1 | The Easter Island Testament

19786.0

The Cousteau Collection N°32-1 | The Precontinent Adventure (Precontinent III)

19666.0

The Cousteau Collection N°26-1 | 500 Million Years Under the Sea

19735.5

The Cousteau Collection N°35-1 | The Sharks

19675.5

The Cousteau Collection N°34-1 | The Legend of Lake Titicaca

19687.8

The Cousteau Collection N°38-1 | The Coral Jungle

The Cousteau Collection N°38-1 | The Coral Jungle

1967

The Cousteau Collection N°37-1 | Warm Blood in the Sea

19815.5

The Cousteau Collection N°43-1 | Sunken Caverns

The Cousteau Collection N°43-1 | Sunken Caverns

19716.0

Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia

19976.0

The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude

19806.0

The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1)

19956.5

The Cousteau Collection N°44-1 | Australia: Treasures of the Sea

The Cousteau Collection N°44-1 | Australia: Treasures of the Sea

19916.0

The Silent World

19566.5

The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan

1975

Titanic's Lost Sister

19968.5

St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea

198210.0

Shipwrecks

19469.0

My Father the Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau

2011

The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2

The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2

1979

At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

19439.0

Lost Relics of the Sea

Lost Relics of the Sea

1977

Becoming Cousteau

20216.9

Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years

19859.0

La Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

La Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

1955

Lilliput in Antarctica

Lilliput in Antarctica

1990

Savage World of the Coral Jungle

Savage World of the Coral Jungle

Shipwrecked on a Great Lake

20146.0

An Evening with John Denver

1975